Method for manoeuvring a motor vehicle comprising determination of a distance to go for brake actuation, control unit, driver assistance system, and motor vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11124183-B2
Application number	US-201716080853-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2017
Priority date	Mar 1, 2016
Publication date	Sep 21, 2021
Grant date	Sep 21, 2021

Abstract

A method for manoeuvring a motor vehicle is disclosed. In the method, a trajectory for manoeuvring the motor vehicle is determined. During the manoeuvring of the motor vehicle along the trajectory, a notification distance, which describes a distance to a turning point of the trajectory, and a collision distance, which describes a distance to an object in a surrounding of the motor vehicle, are determined. Based on the notification distance and the collision distance, a distance to go until the actuation of a brake system of the motor vehicle is determined. Based on changes in the time curve of the notification distance, a corrected notification distance is determined in an ongoing manner. Based on changes in the time curve of the collision distance, a corrected collision distance is determined in an ongoing manner. The distance to go is determined based on the corrected notification distance and the corrected collision distance.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manoeuvring a motor vehicle, comprising:
determining, by a processor, a trajectory for manoeuvring the motor vehicle;
determining, by the processor using data from a sensor and during the manoeuvring of the motor vehicle along the trajectory, a notification distance, which describes a distance to a turning point of the trajectory, and a collision distance, which describes a distance to an object in a surrounding of the motor vehicle, wherein the object is entered in a digital surrounding map which describes the surrounding;
based on the notification distance and the collision distance, determining a distance to go until the actuation of a brake system of the motor vehicle;
based on changes in the time curve of the notification distance, determining a corrected notification distance in an ongoing manner;
based on changes in the time curve of the collision distance, determining in an ongoing manner, a corrected collision distance; and
controlling the motor vehicle using the distance to go to prevent the motor vehicle from colliding with another object, wherein the distance to go is further determined in an ongoing manner based on the corrected notification distance and the corrected collision distance, and
the distance to go is a remaining distance the motor vehicle can travel before actuation of the brake system.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, to determine the corrected notification distance and the corrected collision distance, a jump in the time curve of the notification distance or in the time curve of the collision distance is detected as a change.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, if a positive jump in the time curve of the notification distance and/or the collision distance is detected as a change and a level of the positive jump falls below a predetermined threshold value, the corrected notification distance and/or the corrected collision distance are assumed to be constant.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, if a positive jump in the time curve of the notification distance or the collision distance is detected as a change and a level of the positive jump exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the corrected notification distance or the corrected collision distance are elevated.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, if a negative jump is detected as a change in the time curve of the notification distance, a value is added to the time curve of the notification distance to determine the corrected notification distance.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, if a negative jump is detected as a change in the time curve of the collision distance, the collision distance is assumed as the corrected collision distance.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the distance to go is determined on the basis of a minimum of the corrected notification distance and the corrected collision distance if the corrected notification distance is greater than the corrected collision distance.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, to determine the corrected notification distance and/or the corrected collision distance, jumps between the time curve of the notification distance and the time curve of the collision distance are smoothed.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a notification is output if the notification distance is exceeded during the manoeuvring of the motor vehicle.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a determination of the corrected notification distance and the corrected collision distance is updated after a gear change of the motor vehicle.

11. A control unit for a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle, the control unit comprising a processor connected to a sensor, wherein the control unit:
determines a trajectory for manoeuvring the motor vehicle;
determines, during the manoeuvring of the motor vehicle along the trajectory, a notification distance, which describes a distance to a turning point of the trajectory, and a collision distance, which describes a distance to an object in a surrounding of the motor vehicle, wherein the object is entered in a digital surrounding map which describes the surrounding;
determines, based on the notification distance and the collision distance, a distance to go until the actuation of a brake system of the motor vehicle;
determines, based on changes in the time curve of the notification distance, a corrected notification distance in an ongoing manner;
determines, based on changes in the time curve of the notification distance, a corrected collision distance in an ongoing manner;
further determines, based on the corrected notification distance and the corrected collision distance, the distance to go in an ongoing manner; and
controls the motor vehicle using the distance to go to prevent the motor vehicle from colliding with another object, wherein
the distance to go is a remaining distance the motor vehicle can travel before actuation of the brake system.

12. The driver assistance system for the motor vehicle comprising the control unit according to claim 11 .

13. The motor vehicle comprising the driver assistance system according to claim 12 .

Assignees

• Valeo Schalter & Sensoren Gmbh

Inventors

• Sattler Stefanie
• Luecker Steffen
• Joos Malte
• Bariant Jean-Francois
• Blinkie Frank

Classifications

• B60W2554/80

  Spatial relation or speed relative to objects · CPC title

• B60W2530/18

  Distance travelled · CPC title

• B60W60/001

  Planning or execution of driving tasks · CPC title

• B60W30/095 Primary

  Predicting travel path or likelihood of collision · CPC title

• B60W30/09 Primary

  Taking automatic action to avoid collision, e.g. braking and steering · CPC title